I felt it appropriate to blog on the eve of my new job. WOW! I can't believe I'm going back to working 40+ hours a week. It will go down to 40 hours once I finish with all my social services clients. I can imagine I will be pretty tired this week, since I haven't worked a 40 hour work week in a year and a half. I am comforted by the fact that I will have a steady paycheck and benefits to boot.
This new job should prove interesting and challenging, but not so challenging as to stress me out too much. It will be a mixture of management and working with individuals and families. I know there will be bumps (what job doesn't have bumps), but right now it will be a refreshing break from the normal therapy routine.
I will blog more after I start my new job. Please pray for me if you feel led.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Thursday, January 18, 2007
To Be A Woman...
What does it mean to be a woman? I don't think it is the way our culture has taught us. I think our culture has denied us our femininity and we suffer for it today. Even our churches don't teach us what it means to be a woman or a man. We learn many good things at church, but do we learn how God intended us to be when he created us?
I have been very fortunate to be in a class at my church that details Biblical womanhood. It has taught me so much about how God made me and what his desire is for me as a woman. It has created a desire in me to learn more about who I am as a woman and a Christian. My friend, Barb, is passionate about this area and I have greatly appreciated her wisdom and resources that have taught me about this area of my life.
I would love to hear what some of you think. How do you see your womanhood in light of God? Do you think there are some things that make you different from men? Are there some things that women should or should not do? What is your attitude towards men and the role God gives them? What roles do you fulfill as a woman and what roles do men fulfill? Should there be differences? I am really interested in hearing what you think, so please post comments. I will then create a new post detailing what I have learned, but first I want to hear from you!
I look forward to getting your comments.
I have been very fortunate to be in a class at my church that details Biblical womanhood. It has taught me so much about how God made me and what his desire is for me as a woman. It has created a desire in me to learn more about who I am as a woman and a Christian. My friend, Barb, is passionate about this area and I have greatly appreciated her wisdom and resources that have taught me about this area of my life.
I would love to hear what some of you think. How do you see your womanhood in light of God? Do you think there are some things that make you different from men? Are there some things that women should or should not do? What is your attitude towards men and the role God gives them? What roles do you fulfill as a woman and what roles do men fulfill? Should there be differences? I am really interested in hearing what you think, so please post comments. I will then create a new post detailing what I have learned, but first I want to hear from you!
I look forward to getting your comments.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Book Reading Binge, Again!
Well, I am doing it again, I am reading more than one book at a time. Actually, it is normal for me to read at least 2 books, one fiction and one non-fiction, at a time, but I am beyond that now. Right now, I have 6 books sitting on my reading table, one on the bed with me, and then I have my 5 Aspects Bible Study on top of that. I am insane! What is crazier is that I have read from each book, except two, in this past week. Did I mention I am insane? You would think I was back in school if you saw all my books. These are the books I am reading right now:
Those Same Sweet Girls by Cassandra King
For Women Only by Shaunti Feldhahn
For Men Only by Shaunti and Jeff Feldhahn
Love and Respect by Emerson Eggerichs
The Safest Place on Earth by Larry Crabb (I've finished reading, but I'm doing the study questions now)
Devotional Classics by Richard Foster and Bryan Smith
The Life You've Always Wanted by John Ortberg
Five Aspects of a Woman by Barbara Mouser
What can I say, I love to read.
On another note, it snowed again today. I should be going to a church group tonight, but I don't want to get out on the roads again, plus, I am feeling kind of tired and unsociable (is unsociable a word?). This snowy weather has been crazy. The roads barely have time to get clear and dry and it snows again. I don't mind it too much. A lot of other people are tired of the snow. I just don't like to drive in it.
I have a job interview tomorrow!!! I am excited and nervous. If I get the job, it would mean working 40 hours again and sleeping during hours when most of the world sleeps (rather than bedtime at 2 in the morning). I would miss the free time I have, too. However, it would be steady and consistent income along with benefits, which I really need. It would be nice to go to the doctor without fear of it making my bank account sick.
Well, I am out of words for the moment. I am really tired and may lay down for a bit to see if it will charge me up. Naps are great!
Those Same Sweet Girls by Cassandra King
For Women Only by Shaunti Feldhahn
For Men Only by Shaunti and Jeff Feldhahn
Love and Respect by Emerson Eggerichs
The Safest Place on Earth by Larry Crabb (I've finished reading, but I'm doing the study questions now)
Devotional Classics by Richard Foster and Bryan Smith
The Life You've Always Wanted by John Ortberg
Five Aspects of a Woman by Barbara Mouser
What can I say, I love to read.
On another note, it snowed again today. I should be going to a church group tonight, but I don't want to get out on the roads again, plus, I am feeling kind of tired and unsociable (is unsociable a word?). This snowy weather has been crazy. The roads barely have time to get clear and dry and it snows again. I don't mind it too much. A lot of other people are tired of the snow. I just don't like to drive in it.
I have a job interview tomorrow!!! I am excited and nervous. If I get the job, it would mean working 40 hours again and sleeping during hours when most of the world sleeps (rather than bedtime at 2 in the morning). I would miss the free time I have, too. However, it would be steady and consistent income along with benefits, which I really need. It would be nice to go to the doctor without fear of it making my bank account sick.
Well, I am out of words for the moment. I am really tired and may lay down for a bit to see if it will charge me up. Naps are great!
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Welcome Baby David
Hooray! My friends, Daniel and Iwona had their baby boy, David, on Januray 11. Mom and baby are doing well. Praise God! Here are some pictures of him. I think he is too adorable. Congrats Daniel and Iwona, you guys will do great as parents! I love you!
Thursday, January 11, 2007
New Baby On The Way!!!
I'm so excited. I got an email tonight telling me that one of my best friends, Iwona, was on her way to the hospital to have her baby! This will be she and Daniel's first baby and it is a boy. The last I talked with her, they hadn't picked out a name, but as soon as I hear it, I will post it. I was getting ready to go to bed when I decided to check my email. Now I am so excited, I don't know if I can get to sleep.
She and Daniel live in Poland and are doing youth missions there. It is about 9:30 am there and Daniel sent the email out a little before 5:00 am saying they were headed to the hospital. I'm trying to keep still instead of bouncing up and down on the bed from the excitement. This is awesome.
To learn more about Daniel and Iwona and their ministry, feel free to go to their website at www.eifling.net. Here is a picture of my wonderful friends.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
It's Been Over a Month!!!
Wow! I can't believe I haven't blogged for over a month. I completely skipped over Christmas on this blog and now it's 2007! Craziness!
Well, here is the low down on what I have been up to. Since I last blogged, I had a major blow-up with some of the people that hire me for independent contract work and with some people I used to work with at the mental health center. This was ugly. I was ugly. I had a great deal of anger, resentment, and bitterness towards several people. I remember looking at myself and seeing how black and sinful I could be. YUCK! I am still struggling some with what happened and needing constant divine help in dealing with it. I think, had I not called on God, things would be much uglier and I would be extremely ugly on the inside. I am still working on forgiveness. This situation has made me awe at how God forgives us. I know it is hard for me and yet he was willing to die for me so that I could experience His forgiveness. WOW! It is overwhelming. And because it is overwhelming, I know that if God can forgive me, I need to forgive them. It's just really tough. I think I am doing alright and then, WHAM, something happens and I realize I am still holding resentment and bitterness. This situation took up the better part of the first part of December.
Another thing that happened was I didn't have my computer for a week. My power source died and I had to wait for a new part. I didn't realize how much time I spent on my computer until I was without it. I about went stir crazy. I still had online shopping to do for the holidays and email is one of my communication lifelines.
After I got the new part, I had to leave for my nephew's wedding in Nebraska. Okay, so that was somewhat weird. Here is my nephew and he is getting married before I am. We're only 10 years apart, but it still seems wrong somehow. Hopefully, he waits to start having kids and I beat him on that one. If I have a great nephew or niece before I have children of my own, I think I might cry. His wedding was great. His wife (that's weird to say), Stacie, seems like a wonderful person. I am very happy for him and I'm looking forward to when I get a chance to get to know Stacie better.
After his wedding, I went down to Kansas to spend a few days with my family. Well, a few days turned into a week! A blizzard hit Colorado and Western Kansas and I was "snowed out" of Colorado. I couldn't go back until December 23. The whole time I was there, I didn't have Internet access on my computer and their computer is dial-up and takes forever to work, so I opted out of blogging then. Also, I got sick the night before the wedding and was sick the whole time I was in Kansas. It was great getting to see my sisters and nieces while I was back. I have missed my family and I need to try and get back sooner (it was 2 1/2 years since I had been back to visit). I do have to say, my time there was relaxing, since I didn't really go anywhere, but I was certainly ready to get back home. My cats were freaking out with me being gone so long. Agape developed a very nasty habit. He ended up peeing and pooping all over my bed, peeing in my clothes hamper, and peeing on one of the cats chairs. I have to now close my bedroom off anytime I leave the house for fear he will "act out" again. He also acts like he wants to go in the hamper or in my clothes basket, so I get to escort him, on occasion, to his litter box. Once there, he goes to the bathroom fine. It is rather annoying. I feel sorry for him though. I lost quite a bit of wait while I was gone. I could feel his rib cage. The poor thing was just really distressed with Mommy being gone for more than 2 days.
When I got home from Kansas, I had more adventures waiting for me. I made it back to Colorado fine. I stopped off at PetsMart (I bought presents for the bubbies since I was gone so long) and at the grocery store. I made it to my neighborhood and got stuck in snow when I almost had the car in the garage. It took myself, Erin, and the neighbor, and hour and a half to get my car unstuck and in the garage. I think I moved about 500 pounds of snow. I hurt for three days afterwards. I'm so thankful for our neighbor, Kurt, because I would have never gotten unstuck if he hadn't come to help. When I got in the house I discovered that Agape had peed on my bed twice and it had soaked into the mattress. I had to start unpacking and doing laundry. I started with my bedding as it was covered in cat urine. I had to spray down my mattress with special cleaner and allow it to dry before flipping the mattress over for a urine free side of the bed. As I was doing laundry, I went into our basement and noticed that one of the pipes had a small leak. AHHHHH! This was not the homecoming I was anticipating.
The next two days were Christmas Eve and Christmas and I was busy getting the house clean and going over to my aunt and uncle's house. My uncle had to come and get me and Erin because our cars would have never made it up their street. It hadn't been plowed at all and there were huge ruts and other hazardous road conditions. He has a 4 wheel drive Jeep and was able to make the trips. The day after Christmas, I crashed and slept most of the day, then it was back to work. I finally got my car out on Wednesday (a week after the blizzard hit) and then on Thursday night, we got another storm. All pathways that had been cleared were now filled with snow again! It was crazy! Now, it is snowing again and there is a snow and blowing snow advisory out for tonight and tomorrow. We are supposed to get another 4-8 inches. They still haven't gotten everything cleared off from the last 2 storms and here comes round 3. I wonder if it is going to be like this all winter. I think, so far, Loveland has gotten around 3 to 3 1/2 feet of snow in a two week time period. I know the city is working really hard at getting the snow removed, but there is so much, it is hard to keep up with (plus, it keeps snowing). School was supposed to start back up again yesterday and they cancelled it for the rest of the week because a lot of sidewalks are still impassable and kids would have to walk in the street. Obviously, this is not safe for the children. The high school went back today, but that is all. We'll see if they cancel school in the morning or not.
Well that is the low down and some of the obstacles on why I haven't blogged for so long and what has been going on for me over this past month. On another note, I have applied for a full-time job that is with a faith based organization. I am hoping to get a call soon about a possible interview.
I think that is it for now. I will write before another month passes again.\
Happy New Year!!!
Well, here is the low down on what I have been up to. Since I last blogged, I had a major blow-up with some of the people that hire me for independent contract work and with some people I used to work with at the mental health center. This was ugly. I was ugly. I had a great deal of anger, resentment, and bitterness towards several people. I remember looking at myself and seeing how black and sinful I could be. YUCK! I am still struggling some with what happened and needing constant divine help in dealing with it. I think, had I not called on God, things would be much uglier and I would be extremely ugly on the inside. I am still working on forgiveness. This situation has made me awe at how God forgives us. I know it is hard for me and yet he was willing to die for me so that I could experience His forgiveness. WOW! It is overwhelming. And because it is overwhelming, I know that if God can forgive me, I need to forgive them. It's just really tough. I think I am doing alright and then, WHAM, something happens and I realize I am still holding resentment and bitterness. This situation took up the better part of the first part of December.
Another thing that happened was I didn't have my computer for a week. My power source died and I had to wait for a new part. I didn't realize how much time I spent on my computer until I was without it. I about went stir crazy. I still had online shopping to do for the holidays and email is one of my communication lifelines.
After I got the new part, I had to leave for my nephew's wedding in Nebraska. Okay, so that was somewhat weird. Here is my nephew and he is getting married before I am. We're only 10 years apart, but it still seems wrong somehow. Hopefully, he waits to start having kids and I beat him on that one. If I have a great nephew or niece before I have children of my own, I think I might cry. His wedding was great. His wife (that's weird to say), Stacie, seems like a wonderful person. I am very happy for him and I'm looking forward to when I get a chance to get to know Stacie better.
After his wedding, I went down to Kansas to spend a few days with my family. Well, a few days turned into a week! A blizzard hit Colorado and Western Kansas and I was "snowed out" of Colorado. I couldn't go back until December 23. The whole time I was there, I didn't have Internet access on my computer and their computer is dial-up and takes forever to work, so I opted out of blogging then. Also, I got sick the night before the wedding and was sick the whole time I was in Kansas. It was great getting to see my sisters and nieces while I was back. I have missed my family and I need to try and get back sooner (it was 2 1/2 years since I had been back to visit). I do have to say, my time there was relaxing, since I didn't really go anywhere, but I was certainly ready to get back home. My cats were freaking out with me being gone so long. Agape developed a very nasty habit. He ended up peeing and pooping all over my bed, peeing in my clothes hamper, and peeing on one of the cats chairs. I have to now close my bedroom off anytime I leave the house for fear he will "act out" again. He also acts like he wants to go in the hamper or in my clothes basket, so I get to escort him, on occasion, to his litter box. Once there, he goes to the bathroom fine. It is rather annoying. I feel sorry for him though. I lost quite a bit of wait while I was gone. I could feel his rib cage. The poor thing was just really distressed with Mommy being gone for more than 2 days.
When I got home from Kansas, I had more adventures waiting for me. I made it back to Colorado fine. I stopped off at PetsMart (I bought presents for the bubbies since I was gone so long) and at the grocery store. I made it to my neighborhood and got stuck in snow when I almost had the car in the garage. It took myself, Erin, and the neighbor, and hour and a half to get my car unstuck and in the garage. I think I moved about 500 pounds of snow. I hurt for three days afterwards. I'm so thankful for our neighbor, Kurt, because I would have never gotten unstuck if he hadn't come to help. When I got in the house I discovered that Agape had peed on my bed twice and it had soaked into the mattress. I had to start unpacking and doing laundry. I started with my bedding as it was covered in cat urine. I had to spray down my mattress with special cleaner and allow it to dry before flipping the mattress over for a urine free side of the bed. As I was doing laundry, I went into our basement and noticed that one of the pipes had a small leak. AHHHHH! This was not the homecoming I was anticipating.
The next two days were Christmas Eve and Christmas and I was busy getting the house clean and going over to my aunt and uncle's house. My uncle had to come and get me and Erin because our cars would have never made it up their street. It hadn't been plowed at all and there were huge ruts and other hazardous road conditions. He has a 4 wheel drive Jeep and was able to make the trips. The day after Christmas, I crashed and slept most of the day, then it was back to work. I finally got my car out on Wednesday (a week after the blizzard hit) and then on Thursday night, we got another storm. All pathways that had been cleared were now filled with snow again! It was crazy! Now, it is snowing again and there is a snow and blowing snow advisory out for tonight and tomorrow. We are supposed to get another 4-8 inches. They still haven't gotten everything cleared off from the last 2 storms and here comes round 3. I wonder if it is going to be like this all winter. I think, so far, Loveland has gotten around 3 to 3 1/2 feet of snow in a two week time period. I know the city is working really hard at getting the snow removed, but there is so much, it is hard to keep up with (plus, it keeps snowing). School was supposed to start back up again yesterday and they cancelled it for the rest of the week because a lot of sidewalks are still impassable and kids would have to walk in the street. Obviously, this is not safe for the children. The high school went back today, but that is all. We'll see if they cancel school in the morning or not.
Well that is the low down and some of the obstacles on why I haven't blogged for so long and what has been going on for me over this past month. On another note, I have applied for a full-time job that is with a faith based organization. I am hoping to get a call soon about a possible interview.
I think that is it for now. I will write before another month passes again.\
Happy New Year!!!
Monday, November 27, 2006
Just a Little Note
I just felt like writing, but I really don't have anything on my mind that I feel like writing about. I am trying to get in the holiday spirit. I don't have my decorations or tree up yet, but I have been listening to Christmas music. My favorite album is Point of Grace's, A Christmas Story. I also love Michael W Smith's Christmas albums.
I do feel tense tonight. I am anxious about my week. I am trying not to be. I know that God is in control and nothing can happen to me without Him knowing about it and working it into my Tapestry. That is why I named this blog Tapestry. God is writing my story or weaving the tapestry of my life. I can only see individual or small groups of threads, not the whole tapestry. My tapestry is not complete, it is always being worked on. I know that my tapestry will turn out to be the story of where God wanted to take me. Little parts don't make sense, but the whole thing will once it is completed. I hold onto the promise that "God works for the good of those who love Him and call on His name". Even when life stinks and seems horrible, in the end, it will all work out for my betterment. This is the hope I have. We all need hope, don't you think?
I feel tired, yet, I am awake. I have much to do, but most of it involves tomorrow, so I can't worry about it today.
Well, there is my note. :)
I do feel tense tonight. I am anxious about my week. I am trying not to be. I know that God is in control and nothing can happen to me without Him knowing about it and working it into my Tapestry. That is why I named this blog Tapestry. God is writing my story or weaving the tapestry of my life. I can only see individual or small groups of threads, not the whole tapestry. My tapestry is not complete, it is always being worked on. I know that my tapestry will turn out to be the story of where God wanted to take me. Little parts don't make sense, but the whole thing will once it is completed. I hold onto the promise that "God works for the good of those who love Him and call on His name". Even when life stinks and seems horrible, in the end, it will all work out for my betterment. This is the hope I have. We all need hope, don't you think?
I feel tired, yet, I am awake. I have much to do, but most of it involves tomorrow, so I can't worry about it today.
Well, there is my note. :)
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